David Bowie and The Monkees were very different artists. Despite this, Bowie compared one of his most famous personas, Ziggy Stardust, to The Monkees. He felt the Prefab Four were lacking compared to ...

A Dance for David Bowie will explore how the musician ‘practised a form of artistic reincarnation’, says choreographer Marcos Morau ...

Rock 'n' roll became part of the mainstream when Elvis Presley crashed the gates in the mid '50s. The Beatles and Rolling Stones pushed further into culture in the '60s, but by the end of the decade ...

In January 1972, David Bowie introduced Ziggy Stardust to the U.K. public. He gave an interview in the British music magazine Melody Maker, as transcribed on the fansite Bowie Bible. The story kicked ...

LONDON - JUNE 1972: Musician David Bowie poses for a portrait in his "Ziggy Stardust" guise in June 1972 in London, England. David Bowie's The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust returns to a pair of ...

David Bowie‘s quasi-concept album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars delivered him to new levels of stardom and introduced one of the most iconic alter egos of his career.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There's little question that David Bowie's rise to superstardom in 1972 was a carefully calculated campaign, involving an ...

Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 Co-producer Ken Scott, friend Geoff MacCormack, and Bowie himself, in archival quotes, recall the making of Bowie’s seminal 1972 album, chronicled in a new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Between 1972 and 1973, Bowie's on-stage persona captured fans with its androgynous look and alien roots. Angie Bowie, David's wife ...

If David Bowie's 1969 single “Space Oddity” finally brought him to the U.K. pop charts, then his 1972 album, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, transformed the once-unknown ...

David Bowie’s first-ever TV appearance in his Ziggy Stardust persona has been found, but it’s in such a fragile state that producers of an upcoming documentary aren’t certain they’ll be able to rescue ...

When Ziggy Stardust landed in America in 1972, almost no one cared. I remember working at Waxie Maxies, a record store in Rockville, Maryland, where we got a whopping total of 3 copies for our store, ...